Tiffany Lynn Smith walked out of the Norfolk Courthouse Friday after being sentenced to serve two years in prison in the ...

A man is facing felony animal cruelty charges after police said he drowned his neighbor’s cat in his garage, according to an ...

Journalist Michael Berryhill didn't just help secure the freedom of Eroy Brown. His book on the murder trial of Brown exposed the cruelty of the Texas prison system, writes UH professor Kevin Prufer.

Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother convicted of drowning her children in 1994, will face a parole board later this year.

A family vacation in the Florida Keys turned into a criminal case after a young child nearly drowned while her ...

The US Justice Department on Friday released a sweeping report calling for a significant expansion of the federal death penalty, including policy recommendations for faster executions, widening the ...

A former Springfield aldermanic candidate and financial advisor pleaded guilty to endangering the life or health of a child ...

A Jacksonville woman has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and felony child abuse in connection with the drowning ...

The South Carolina woman convicted of rolling her car into a lake and drowning her two children is once again up for parole.

The man's wife says he went into the water and saved his son from the rip current before it took him away. A woman from Ohio also died trying to help.

And the real life inspirations behind the Netflix series ...